“It is difficult to respond to such vicious words. We think that the
National Cooperation System has entered a period of stagnation, invoking
ideals less and less even within its own world, and now it gets
unacceptable figures to say unacceptable sentences. Eötvös Károly
Institute, which operates under extremely humble circumstances, has
never uttered a word that was suggested by somebody else. We have always
told what we were convinced of. It is our moral obligation to say no to
the hate campaign that is almost unique in European history. If the
consequence is national security screening against the Institute, let it
be. We have nothing to hide.”
László Majtényi: There is stink
László Majtényi’s essay in Élet és Irodalom on 2 Februar 2018.